Did you know a college in Springfield SD was a part of the University of South Dakota for a few years?

The Archives and Special Collections recently received buttons (or pins) related to this event. For the full story of how Southern State College became the University of South Dakota/Springfield, and then a state minimum-security prison, consult the William J. Janklow papers at the Archives and Special Collections and/or read “Closing Time: A Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective on the Life and Death of the University of South Dakota at Springfield” by Marshall Damgaard in the South Dakota History volume 39 number 3, (fall 2009): 189-267. Damgaard stated in his history that “On the Move” “was the slogan USD/S adopted to signify its new emphasis on technical education in the 1970s.”